Comments by "TeeKay" (@teekay_1) on "Jaguar I-Pace EV WON'T STOP on motorway as brand ABANDONS its heritage | MGUY Australia" video.

@joytotheworld9109 a handbrake won't stop a car. It won't even slow it unless you're going under 10 MPH. I have experience with this ;)
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@robri87-hh4gr "Most modern cars dont have a handbrake. It's electric." "most"? "some" is a better adverb here.
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@derekcable Making that the default mode is silly. When you drive the car you are the captain of the ship. It should do exactly what you want it to do.
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@derekcable That's completely untrue. Most cars with these types of nannies let you turn them off. The reality is most cars don't have these types of nannies.
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@derekcable My wife and daughter are very capable drivers; in fact my daughter is a much better driver than my wife she's almost as quick as I am around a track and on public roads she's focused on the task at hand. But that's to be expected because she had a very good teacher. My son is even quicker than me, but that's to be expected. He's also good at wrenching, but again that's to be expected, he learned from the best.
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@dashcamandy2242 Nah. Most sedans have weak handbrakes. Consider that your brakes all by themselves will prevent any movement by your car if you're standing still. You can try it yourself. But if you're going 120kph, they won't stop your car right away. In fact it may take a few hundred feet, even if you stomp the brakes. This is also an easy test to do, although for most drivers I wouldn't recommend it unless you've actually been in a car at speed where you've locked up a rear wheel or two. If you're faced with what's been presented, first thing is to remove power. Put the car in neutral. The rev limiter will keep the engine from self-destructing. Then gently apply the parking brake and remember to keep steering. Most people are at their limit driving down the road on a bright sunny day with no cars around them. If you change any of those parameters, most drivers are on a knife's edge of controlling their car. So you've got to follow the KISS principle.
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@stupich5868 They will certainly lock the car if it's standing still but try pulling up on that handbrake at 100kph. It won't do anything.
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@derekcable Leave them in there fine. But if I turn them off, they stay off. If you confuse driving with pushing a grocery cart, they help you. But otherwise they're actually worse than useless.
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@stupich5868 depends on the car. Many cars employ a small set of brake pads specifically for the parking brake on the inner part of disc, which are a separate mechanism than the brakes that stop you. Perhaps you drive a car with drum brakes.
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@solentbum their COG is pretty high, so that probably explains it
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